Food and agriculture number crunching, part 2
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
By and large there is a far too simplistic debate about the role of livestock in our food and agriculture systems.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
By and large there is a far too simplistic debate about the role of livestock in our food and agriculture systems.
By John Thackara, John Thackara blog
A new course in Sweden poses the question, “what will a self-sufficient Hällefors Municipality taste like in 2030?” Students on the course act like talent scouts. They search for unrealised food-growing potential across the region – people, unused land, forgotten traditions.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
This is how a future that includes me was created. This, place-based farming, is wisdom. And, I suspect that, in places like mine, this is the only path that can lead to another future millennium.
By Kim Kendall, Resilience.org
Living and working, having lifestyles and livelihoods that are truly regenerative and sustainable look nothing like how most of us currently live and work.
By Gabes Torres , YES! magazine
How, then, do we remind ourselves of food’s healing elements, especially in our social connections?
By Magdalena Puniewska, Hakai Magazine
Oysters can be an important protein for the future and a buffer against some climate change impacts only if society can balance competing interests.
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
After more than 100 years of suppressing the West’s fires, land managers and government agencies are finally warming to the idea that fire can be beneficial — and necessary — for many landscapes.
By Seed Library Network, Shareable
Are you new to seeding and interested in establishing a seed bank in your neighborhood? Immersed in the seeding world and looking to connect with other folks and deepen your networks? Perhaps you’re an agriculturist interested in the intersection of seed lending and food sovereignty. Wherever you fall on the spectrum, you won’t want to miss Seeding the Future: The 11th Annual Seed Library Summit.
By Hannes Lorenzen, ARC2020
Beyond the classical thematic advocacy for organic farming, animal welfare and nature conservation there is a new opportunity to embrace the climate, biodiversity, CAP, job-sharing movements – and the desire to reach a humane work-life balance.
By Michelle Chen, YES! magazine
While the first ethnic grocery stores—food retailers catering to a migrant or diasporic culture—in the U.S. opened up during the 19th and early 20th centuries in urban minority neighborhoods in major cities, today, such grocery stores have mushroomed around the country, wherever new migrant communities have sprung up.
By Jessica Milgroom, Agroecology Now!
This episode of the podcast miniseries ‘A Journey Through Feminist Agroecology’ explores the encounter between Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignty as a decolonial project of reparations and reconstruction.
By Nayeema Eusuf, Resilience.org
Understanding runs into economics with a solid thunk. I am tired of this stupid bird that’s squatting in my workspace and harassing me. So I think, why not just outwit him?